Proposed change: weak symbol support for Darwin

Mike Stump mrs@apple.com
Wed Oct 15 04:51:00 GMT 2003


On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 03:00 PM, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>> The only reason I was reluctant to make the change globally was that
>> on most platforms (e.g. Linux/x86) the current scheme ain't broke.
>
> For right or wrong, the ABI requires that all vtables with external
> linkage have "vague linkage".  Therefore, I don't think we should 
> change
> the linkage of vtables on any platform, except those that don't have
> proper support for weak/COMDAT/etc.

Ok, then I can revise my current patch thusly...

Ok?

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